Phelps County has been awarded over $17,000 in federal funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the emergency food and shelter national board program.

Five doctoral students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will participate in a University of Missouri system development program designed to help them become future industry or academic leaders.

Missouri police identified 36-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge as the gunman who allegedly shot and killed eight people in several residences within a 3-mile radius in rural Tyrone, Missouri, overnight before turning the gun on himself.